• Network: BBC-1 , BBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 23, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2
User Score
7.6 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7

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  1. MattN.
    Oct 15, 2007
    10
    This is an excellent show. Very suspenseful and mysterious
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  2. CharlesW.
    Oct 29, 2007
    10
    brilliantly acted and photographed Gripping not like Bourne Ultimatum, but in story-telling and character
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  3. [Anonymous]
    Oct 30, 2007
    10
    Planned to cancel my free month of HBO last week, but had to keep it on for one more week to see the finale!
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. 70
    Written by Gwyneth Hughes, the script perhaps reaches too far and falls short. The whole is somehow less than the sum of its parts. And yet Five Days rewards with enough gripping moments to make it worth investigating.
  2. 80
    The ensemble cast, including David Oyelowo, Edward Woodward ("The Equalizer") and Janet McTeer, is first rate. A winner.
  3. The sheer number of plotlines can be overwhelming, but the images--flowers dropped on the side of the road, a dusty van sliding away--are relentlessly riveting. And the series only gets better from here. [5 Oct 2007, p.66]